Monthly Archives: May, 2010

Memorial Day

On Memorial Day in small-town New England we clean the graves and decorate those of the old soldiers with the flag.  Since I moved...

A Life in Dreams

I never knew Tam Tran, but by all accounts, she was a young and vibrant activist, artist, and scholar whose lasting legacy among her...

Paradise and Prisons: New York Times on the Con Dao Islands

Vietnam is apparently going the way of Thailand. The New York Times wrote recently about the Con Dao Islands, once the site of horrific...

Meeting a Taxi Driver in N.Y. and Other Poems by Phan Nhiên Hạo

SPOTLIGHT ON PHAN NHIÊN HẠOThe poems below by Phan Nhiên Hạo are “fueled by a mix of strife, hope, love, and futility." Phan Nhiên...

the war after the war

This post is going to be of a more personal nature...I spend my mornings (usually) trying to write. Lately, and as usual, I am...

Operation Greenlight

Cinema Symposium 5 (UCLA)I had the chance to take a peek into the world of Vietnamese Cinema this past weekend.The panel consisting of Danny...

diaCRITICIZE: Loudspeakers in different languages

diaCRITICIZE is the periodic editors' note or guest editorial. Here, Nguyen Qui Duc reflects on some legacies of war: "The war’s over. I am so glad. I can go back to sleep. I haven’t been able to for most of April…"

Asia Entertainment pays tribute in “55 Năm Nhìn Lại” Video

Asia Entertainment, for those who might be unfamiliar with Vietnamese disaporic pop culture, is the production company that has gone head to head with...

Diasporic Ho Chi Minh

We can't let May 19th pass without a gesture toward the man the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam claims was born that day in...

You say Dia, I say Địa

I was immediately enchanted by Rich Streitmatter-Tran's creative use of the prefix Dia when he launched his blog diacritic.org in 2005.